Bing map control - Still showing data when you zoom in too far
One issue i have with the bing map control, is that when you zoom in past the level where there is data, you get the no image icon everywhere. Is there any way to keep the last real data, but still zoom in. Sure it would be pixelated, but that is preferable over showing nothing David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Bing map control - Still showing data when you zoom in too far
How about an interim fix? Are we able to detect client side if the tiles aren't available past a certain zoom level, so we can lock the zoom? i.e. zoom factor 17 has tiles, they then try to zoom to 18. There aren't any tiles, so we manually set the zoom level back to 17? David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Friday, 23 October 2009 10:30 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: Bing map control - Still showing data when you zoom in too far It’s a known issue David, we’re solving this currently on the server side. For performance in our pilot intranet application we put a tilehandler between the application and the real tiles, we’re caching tiles in SQL2008. From here it wasn’t too hard to detect no-image tiles then recursively fetch the tile above, resize and crop (and then cache as well). My understanding is that a fix will be provided for the final release but it will rely on knowing where the imagery is in advance. Typically this is not compatible with your custom imagery overlays so it will be interesting to see the solution in the coming months. John. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:53 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Bing map control - Still showing data when you zoom in too far One issue i have with the bing map control, is that when you zoom in past the level where there is data, you get the no image icon everywhere. Is there any way to keep the last real data, but still zoom in. Sure it would be pixelated, but that is preferable over showing nothing David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Databinding with Bing maps control
For anyone that might be interested, I wrote a quick blog post on how to do databinding with the bing maps control http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/databinding-shapes-with-the-bing-maps-control-for-silverlight/ Basicaly just need to create some data templates. Hope it helps someone David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control
although one thing that IS annoying, is that it looks like you now need a bing maps key in order to use the control... David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of David Burela [david.bur...@readify.net] Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:30 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control For anyone who hasn't seen the announcement yet today, they have released a new version of the silverlight bing maps control http://www.microsoft.com/maps/ Changes to the SDK can be seen here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681889.aspx the interesting one for me, is the inclusion of the MapItemsControl class, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.maps.mapcontrol.mapitemscontrol.aspx It allows for databinding to a map layer now, meaning I can get rid of the custom stuff on my blog :-) David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Silverlight 4.0 beta
The best place to read how to get started and the new features is here http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price [step...@littlevoices.com] Sent: Monday, 23 November 2009 5:24 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Silverlight 4.0 beta Is anyone playing with the Silverlight 4.0 beta? How come everyone here is so quiet about it? I'm on semi holidays in Canberra and missed the announcement. Thought I would have seen some discussion on it here tho. Shame on you. :p In particular, this new feature has caught my eye... The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without change. If I read that correctly then I should be able to do normal unit testing (ie using normal test runners such as Resharper, nUnit, TestDriven.net etc). Can anyone confirm that? Some pretty cool new features. I can't help but feel overwealmed with their release cycles. :) cheers, Stephen ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: $10 million with Bing Maps and the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge
can you actually use the bing maps silverlight control in the competition? I had a look at the competition rules. it said that you had to use the NAVTEQ maps + it had to run on one of their official devices, which were 3 windows mobile phones (and silverlight doesn't run on them) David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net| W: www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net/ From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 November 2009 12:44 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: $10 million with Bing Maps and the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Fellow Silverlight devs, As you know the new Bing Maps Silverlight control was released this week and now I have the exciting news that you can use it in a web application to win your share of $10,000,000 with the NAVTEQ Location Based Solution comp. Details are mainly focused around the mobile phone entries (where is Silverlight for mobile when we need it?) so I did an interview with Laura from NAVTEQ to get the details for us web developers. http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/Blog/tabid/73/EntryId/638/Win-your-share-of-10-000-000-with-Bing-Maps-and-Navteq.aspx Any questions feel free to ask :) John. ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Addins in expression blend 3
For anyone that is interested, here is what i've found so far with Jason
Stangroome's help.
1. Reference Microsoft.Expression.Framework
2. Make your class implement Microsoft.Expression.Framework.IPackage
3. Done, blend will pass in the application context into your class so
that you can interact with blend
You then just need to start blend like so blend.exe -addin:BurelaAddin.dll
You can get blend to start the addin automatically with a bit of extra work.
1. Create a manifest text file (BurelaAddin.addin)
2. Put in a single line in the manifest file that points to your .dll
AddIn AssemblyFile=BurelaAddin.dll /
3. Putt the manifest file and your dll in a subfolder of your blend
directory called Addins
4. Blend will now automatically start your addin
One heads up, there is a difference in how your addin starts up based on how
you start blend
· Starting blend with Blend.exe -addin:BurelaAddin.dll: Blend will
fully start up and THEN load your addin
· Starting blend by putting addin in /Addins: Blend will start your
addin BEFORE blend has fully initialised. This means you can't do things like
add menu items, as they don't exist yet.
Here is a quick example of how to do this yourself.
public class Class1 : IPackage
{
private IApplicationService _applicationService;
public void Load(IApplicationService applicationService)
{
_applicationService = applicationService;
applicationService.WindowService.Initialized +=
WindowService_Initialized;
//applicationService.CommandBarService.CommandBars[0].Items.AddMenu(Burelamenu,
Burelamenu);//will crash if we don't use -addin:
}
void WindowService_Initialized(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
_applicationService.CommandBarService.CommandBars[0].Items.AddMenu(BurelaMenu,
BurelaMenu);//Won't crash now, because the app has inited
var fileMenu =
_applicationService.CommandBarService.CommandBars[0].Items[0] as
ICommandBarMenu;
if (fileMenu != null)
fileMenu.Items.AddMenu(BurelamenuItem, BurelamenuItem);
}
public void Unload()
{
}
}
-David Burela
From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com
[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Jonas Follesø
Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 2:19 AM
To: ozSilverlight
Subject: Re: Addins in expression blend 3
Hi David,
I simply haven't found time to get my Colorful add-in up and running on
Expression 3.0.
You are right that the add-in modell changed. It was actually never intended as
a real add-in modell, but something used by the expression team to do things
like automated testing.
Anyways, your best bet is to fire up Reflector and start digging around. I did
that some time back, and could find a bomunch of hooks that looks interesting,
so I am sure it is still possible to write add-ins.
Let us know if you find some useful information, as I still need to get mine
updated to 3.0 :)
Good luck!
-jonas
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:20 AM, David Burela
david.bur...@readify.netmailto:david.bur...@readify.net wrote:
There doesn't seem to be too much information out there on creating add-ins for
expression blend.
The main add-ins that existed (unify, colourful expression, xaml editor) are
all still compiled for expression blend 2 but the add-in model changed in blend
3, so looking at the source code on codeplex isn't a help.
Anyone got some links to get started?
-David Burela
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RE: Extension model in Blend
Looking forward to your post I put together my notes in case it helps anyone and posted them on my blog along with a sample project http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/guide-to-creating-expression-blend-3-addins/ David Burela From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Jose Fajardo Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 3:17 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Extension model in Blend Hey David, I will blog about this soon BUT if you want to learn how to extend Blend, go through the Microsoft.Extension.Prototyping* dll's. Sketchflow was built using the private blend addin model. I believe a future version of Blend will have a public extension model. For now it's built your own plugins at your own risk.. Hit me up if you need some help working out how to do it all, or wait a week or two when i finally get out a couple of posts explaining how it works. l8r From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of ozsilverlight-requ...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-requ...@ozsilverlight.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 1:00 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: ozsilverlight Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2 Send ozsilverlight mailing list submissions to ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ozsilverlight-requ...@ozsilverlight.com You can reach the person managing the list at ozsilverlight-ow...@ozsilverlight.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ozsilverlight digest... Today's Topics: 1. Addins in expression blend 3 (David Burela) 2. Re: Addins in expression blend 3 (Jonas Folles?) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:20:02 +1100 From: David Burela david.bur...@readify.net Subject: Addins in expression blend 3 To: ozSilverlight ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Message-ID: 469842e4eeba3d40bb5ae906cef5fa5d15f92fe...@rpex01.solar.system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii There doesn't seem to be too much information out there on creating add-ins for expression blend. The main add-ins that existed (unify, colourful expression, xaml editor) are all still compiled for expression blend 2 but the add-in model changed in blend 3, so looking at the source code on codeplex isn't a help. Anyone got some links to get started? -David Burela -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/pipermail/ozsilverlight/attachments/20100201/6adaecf2/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:19:23 +0100 From: Jonas Folles? jo...@follesoe.no Subject: Re: Addins in expression blend 3 To: ozSilverlight ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Message-ID: bf5dfdbd1002010719qa6a01b6j520acb73c692e...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi David, I simply haven't found time to get my Colorful add-in up and running on Expression 3.0. You are right that the add-in modell changed. It was actually never intended as a real add-in modell, but something used by the expression team to do things like automated testing. Anyways, your best bet is to fire up Reflector and start digging around. I did that some time back, and could find a bomunch of hooks that looks interesting, so I am sure it is still possible to write add-ins. Let us know if you find some useful information, as I still need to get mine updated to 3.0 :) Good luck! -jonas On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:20 AM, David Burela david.bur...@readify.netwrote: There doesn?t seem to be too much information out there on creating add-ins for expression blend. The main add-ins that existed (unify, colourful expression, xaml editor) are all still compiled for expression blend 2 but the add-in model changed in blend 3, so looking at the source code on codeplex isn?t a help. Anyone got some links to get started? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/pipermail/ozsilverlight/attachments/20100201/0e54dcbf/attachment-0001.html -- ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight End of ozsilverlight Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2 *** Note: The information contained
RE: Silverlight site.
ick, i'm not a fan of the fold out thing at all Whe whole everything jumps about animation is really offputting for me. maybe if it was slower, or less bouncy it'd be acceptable. But how it is right now, I'm not a fan -David Burela From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of carl.scarl...@bankwest.com.au [carl.scarl...@bankwest.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 3:11 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: RE: Silverlight site. I like the foldy display. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me at work (where I’m stuck with IE6 due to our SOE *pout*). The first time I selected something, half the foldy thing stayed visible and the scrollable selector didn’t appear. I couldn’t navigate back until I used the browser’s back button, and then I got stuck at the #business_8 URL. I had to force a page reload (Ctrl+F5). It started to run better (the foldy thing correctly transitioned to the scrollable selector) but I still can’t go back. It also took a while to load the page (the large gradient background image takes too long. Nice try by MS. I like what they’re trying to do. Maybe it works better on IE8 (maybe I’ll try tonight). Carl. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes scott.bar...@readify.net Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:55 AM To: ozSilverlight ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Silverlight site. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight has been updated. Thoughts? (i.e. i had nothing to do with it so unload good/bad) __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. This electronic transmission including any attachments is intended only for those to whom it is addressed. It may contain copyright material or information that is confidential, privileged or exempt from disclosure by law. Any claim to privilege is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken transmission of this information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not distribute or copy this transmission and should please notify the sender. Your costs for doing this will be reimbursed by the sender. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. ___ __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Any good books on Silverlight 3 4 and on MVVM
I'd recommend spending the same amount of time watching the videos from Mix10 http://live.visitmix.com/Videos Especially these MVVM sessions Understanding the MVVM pattern http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX14 Building your own MVVM framework http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX15 There are a few sites that list all of the pure Silverlight sessions, but if you scan down through them you can easily pick out which ones would be the most relevant for you -David Burela From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Vinay Tripathi Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 2:34 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Any good books on Silverlight 3 4 and on MVVM Hi , I was just wondering if you guys got any suggestions on some good books on Silverlight 3 4 and on MVVM? Regards, Vinay Tripathi National Australia Bank Ltd - ABN 12 004 044 937 This email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us at postmas...@nab.com.aumailto:postmas...@nab.com.au or by replying to the sender, and then destroy all copies of this email. Except where this email indicates otherwise, views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not of National Australia Bank Ltd. Advice in this email does not take account of your objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is important for you to consider these matters and, if the e-mail refers to a product(s), you should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement(s)/other disclosure document(s) before making any decisions. If you do not want email marketing from us in future, forward this email with unsubscribe in the subject line to unsubscripti...@nab.com.aumailto:unsubscripti...@nab.com.au in order to stop marketing emails from this sender. National Australia Bank Ltd does not represent that this email is free of errors, viruses or interference. ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: How to hack Expression Blend.
Along a similar path, here are my notes on how to create your own addins for expression blend http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/guide-to-creating-expression-blend-3-addins/ -David Burela From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Tim Heuer Sent: Friday, 2 April 2010 4:36 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: RE: How to hack Expression Blend. Awesome. Tim Heuer | +1 (602) 405-4567 | Microsoft Silverlight blog: http://timheuer.com/blog/ | twitter: @timheuerhttp://twitter.com/timheuer From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:58 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: FYI: How to hack Expression Blend. In case any of you are curious, here's some basic how to on hacking Expression Blend's UI, tonight I wrote a quick blog post documenting it (ie you can really goof around with the UI inside the tool) How to hack Expression Blend - http://bit.ly/9e4GQd Would love to know if any of you are tinkering around in this space as well? any insights/tips? ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Introducing the Developer Blog Banter
I am cross posting this to the Silverlight list, as people here might have some very different responses to the standard ozDotNet mailing list. Hi all, I just announced edition #1 of the Developer Blog Banter. The Developer Blog Banter is a regular article where passionate developers in the community blog on a common topic. The purpose of the DBB is to get more conversation happening in the developer community. I would love to see more discussion and cross posting happening on our blogs. To participate, all you need to do is write a blog post related to the topic and track back to the original topic blog post. The list of participants will be updated on the topic page so that everyone will be able to read how other developers responded. I think it could be really interesting for us all to see how others approach their development. The central page with information is at http://davidburela.wordpress.com/developer-blog-banter/ And the first topic to link back to is here http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/developer-blog-banter-1-what-is- your-preferred-technology-stack/ I hope many of you will participate, I look forward to seeing the wide range of responses! -David Burela Senior Consultant Hazaa ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Silverlight RIA Services
Have you tried hitting the service directly in a browser?
You can do a basic check to ensure that the domain service is actually being
hosted.
If your fully qualified class name was
Myapp.RiaProject.Services.MyDomainService
then you would browse to it by just replacing the dots with - and adding
.svc
localhost:1234://Myapp-RiaProject-Services-MyDomainService.svc
-David Burela
Hazaa
On 15 August 2010 21:29, KO CHANG kochang@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Shingi,
It all look right to me, however, I am curious about the static
declaration on title within the metadata class. Is there a reason why it is
static?
Ko
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Shingi Mutandwa
shingi.mutan...@gmail.com wrote:
The EDMX and the RIA services are in different projects and therefore the
“Generate metadata” checkbox is disabled when generating the domain service
in Visual Studio. However we created a partial class in the same project
containing the EDMX and applied the [include] attr like so:-
[MetadataType(typeof(PersonMetadata))]
public partial class Person
{
internal static class PersonMetadata
{
[Include]
public static Title Title { get; set; }
}
}
And this is the method inside the domain service:-
public IQueryablePerson GetPeople()
{
return this.ObjectContext.People.Include(Title);
}
And here is the generated data contract on the client:-
public sealed partial class Person : Entity
{
/// summary
/// Gets or sets the associated see cref=Title/ entity.
/// /summary
[Association(Title_Person, TitleId, Id, IsForeignKey=true)]
[XmlIgnore()]
public Title Title
{
get
{
if ((this._title == null))
{
this._title = new EntityRefTitle(this, Title,
this.FilterTitle);
}
return this._title.Entity; // * throws exception here
}
set
{
…
}
}
….
}
Exception Details:-
{System.InvalidOperationException: This EntityContainer does not contain
an EntitySet of type 'Deintegro.DAL.Data.Title'. If the type is external to
this EntityContainer, please make sure you’ve called AddReference to
establish the external link.
at
System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.EntityContainer.GetEntitySet(Type
entityType)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.EntityRef`1.get_Entity()
at Deintegro.DAL.Data.Person.get_Title()}System.Exception
{System.InvalidOperationException}
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Shingi Mutandwa
shingi.mutan...@gmail.com wrote:
Deleted the generated_code folder but I am still having the same issue.
The domain service class was generated by Visual studio and I did not add
anything to it.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:09 PM, KO CHANG kochang@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Shinji,
It is likely that you didn't declare any ria service operation
regarding the entity.
For example, have you got any [Insert], [Update], [Delete], [Query]
methods within the domain service?
Ko
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Design time data
Thought I'd check how others are displaying design time data. There are 2
ways that I go about it
1.
Just setting the design time datacontext to a sampledata.xaml file
grid d:Datacontext={SamleData.Xaml}
2.
Doing it similar to how Jordan shows in his presentations
View
ViewModel
Repository (Runtime, DesignTime, etc)
(RVVM)
The first option is nice and quick and easy to do, but it doesn't help you
unit test your ViewModel at all.
The 2nd option is good, but as far as I know depends on your ViewModel
loading the data in the constructor.
I am at a client where they load the data up as a seperate call, not in the
constructor. Any tips on how I could still use the repository pattern, but
still be able to load the data without anything in the constructor. Doesn't
seem possible to me.
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Uploading it raw is easy, but the time consuming bit comes in when I clean up all of the audio and have to render the entire video again. I managed to clear out a lot of the background noise, makes it easy to listen to than the constant hum of fluorescent lights. I've got the SDDN video, a 5 Cloudcamp lightning talks + unpanel, my talk on Window Phone 7 UI guidelines, and tomorrow's Alt.Net lightning talks to clean up and upload after teched. -David Burela On 17 August 2010 14:21, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Oh, yes please! No hurry on when you upload it. Alternatively I can grab it from you at Teched via thumbdrive (assuming I find you among all those people :) I'll be at the UserGroup stand spreading the Silverlight word (Thursday afternoon, but probably other times too) cheers, Stephen On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, for those that missed the Melbourne SDDN, I recorded it. I just won't be able to upload the video for another 1-2 weeks (TechEd preparation, etc.) -David Burela On 11 August 2010 11:19, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback and I had in mind something similar. Not sure about Graffiti (what we're using for sddn.org.au), but I'm sure it will have something similar to categories in Wordpress and we could have RSS feeds for each category and provide a link to those on the home page. Thanks Miguel On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Asheesh Soni asheeshs...@gmail.com wrote: The best option would be a reliable and unified RSS feed with filtering so for example, I could subscribe to all Silverligth events in Melbourne at http://OneUnifiedRSSFeedForEvents.com/AU/Melbourne/Silverlight/feed.rss :) On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: I'm sorry about this. Right now we have different places where we're publishing the events (Facebook group, Twitter, OzSilverlight, sddn.org.au and for Sydney sydney.sddn.org.au). I think we should list everything on sddn.org.au, but I'm sure there're others who would only check the OzSilverlight or only the Facebook group. Considering that, in the meantime we should continue using different mediums to try to reach as most people, but have all those places link to the website... I'm open for opinions. For future events we'll make sure we announce it better and with more time. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Asheesh Soni asheeshs...@gmail.com wrote: Could some one please let me know the url to subscribe for the User group meeting notifications? http://sddn.org.au/meetings/ did not mention it. http://twitter.com/vdnug appears to have died on April 28th I could not find it on Victoria.NET Dev SIG Events either? Was waiting for the meeting for a while, did not check ozsilverlight for a couple of days and now realised that I missed another one :( B.T.W., I emailed my details to i...@victoriadotnet.com.au a while ago but I'dont think I am still a member or get any notifications about vic.net meetings. Any ideas? Thanks On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: Just forwarding this e-mail in case you missed it from the Vic.Net list. From: Victoria .NET on behalf of SDDN [mailto:i...@sddn.org.au] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:57 PM To: Mahesh S. Krishnan Subject: Next Vic.NET/SDDN Meeting: Monday 2nd August, 2010 Next Meeting - Monday August 2nd, 2010 Productivity Tools and Techniques for Silverlight - Miguel Madero During this presentation Miguel will share with us some of the tools and techniques used during the day to day Silverlight Development. Some of these tools will help us design, debug and keep our code neat and simple. Some of the topics covered are: Http Sniffing Visual Design Debugging Silverlight Assemblies Removing the need for INotifyPropertyChanged Advanced Silverlight Debugging Avoiding Code Generation of Web Services When: Monday 2nd August 2010 Time: is 5:30 PM for Pizzas and networking. Presentation starts 6:00 PM Place: Microsoft Theatre. Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank. Miguel has been programming for fun for the last 15 years when he realized that it was better to play with QBasic and Pascal than Prince of Persia. He found out that he could actually get some money out of this hobby so he started a couple of web companies 5 years later and then a Development Shop before moving to Australia to work for Readify where he’s now having fun coding some of the coolest projects in Australia. He discovered Silverlight two years ago and it’s still keeping him busy
Decoupling from RIA services
I am working on a new Silverlight application. It is a standard MVVM application using RIA services to retrieve the data. I am trying to not have the domain service in my ViewModel, and I have managed to get 99% of the domain context out. The only thing that I am just left with, is a EntitySet as the base of one of my collections, which I'm not too worried about. But for testing, etc. I need to be able to new up one of these. When i go var entityset = new EnitySetProducts(); It does create a new EntitySet. However, it doesn't initialise it's internal list. So when I try to add items to it in my tests the whole thing throws null reference exceptions. Does anyone have a way of creating EntitySets client side so I can have everything decoupled from my domain context? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Decoupling from RIA services
I am using ViewModels that use IRepositoryTEntity. I had methods on the IRepository that would return EntitySetTEntity. The problem with them, was that I was not able to create EntitySets for a unit test... I solved that problem by just having the repository process the results and return back a List or ObservableCollection. I was only using EntitySets because of a control I was using, so I just ripped apart their source code and replaced the underlying EntitySet collection with an ObservableCollection. Up until that point I had everything working well and decoupled. The entire ViewModel just had ObservableCollections and IRepositoryTEntity and was completely unit testable. View - ViewModel - IRepository - Ria DataContext The next problem came when I tried to apply paging on top of this. I created a new PagingCollectionTEntity to hold this. It implements the IPagableCollectionView interface, which all paging grids use (builtin silverlight, Telerik, etc.). The grid would make the calls to the interface that it was paging, and the PagingCollectionTEntity would automatically pass on the correct parameters to the repository. The problem I had then was how can you apply arbitrary filtering to your grid through a repository. You can filter a grid by any column and you need those to go through. Creating 50 methods/parameters on a repository isn't feasible. So I tried to get my grid/PagingCollection to work on the IQueryable. *The problem being you can not assign an IQueryable object to the datacontext* You can create your own IQueryable with Enumerable.EmptyTEntity.AsQueryable(). Usually you could just union that with a query you already have going. If you could do that, you could pass your IQueryable down to the datacontext and everything would be fine. However you can only GET the IQueryable from a datacontext, you can not SET it. And they have not exposed the .Union() method on the datacontext query. If they did expose either a union or a way to set the IQueryable, then it would be possible to have a completely decoupled viewmodel that allowed you to do arbitrary paging filtering :-( -David Burela On 3 September 2010 16:18, Steven Nagy steven.n...@readify.net wrote: Hi David, We are using RIA and a standard ViewModel takes an IRepositoryT where T : Entity. When I want to track lists of items I use ObservableCollectionT as well and add it to the EntitySet if I want it commited to the database. Under the hood, an IRepositoryProduct and IRepositoryCategory will use the same domain context however we are in the process of adjusting this to use the same domain context only per ViewModel (ie unit of work) and this is managed by the IOC container. However I never really need to create NEW entity sets and was unsure how to answer your question. Usually with .Include(“Products”) you would get all the products with a category, or at least an empty entity set if there are none, and you can still add to that existing entity set on the Category entity. *Steven Nagy *Readify | Senior Consultant M: +61 404 044 513 | E: steven.n...@readify.net | B: azure.snagy.name *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *David Burela *Sent:* Thursday, 2 September 2010 4:45 PM *To:* ozSilverlight *Subject:* Re: Decoupling from RIA services Answer: Just hack it out and use an ObservableCollection instead. On 2 September 2010 14:10, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on a new Silverlight application. It is a standard MVVM application using RIA services to retrieve the data. I am trying to not have the domain service in my ViewModel, and I have managed to get 99% of the domain context out. The only thing that I am just left with, is a EntitySet as the base of one of my collections, which I'm not too worried about. But for testing, etc. I need to be able to new up one of these. When i go var entityset = new EnitySetProducts(); It does create a new EntitySet. However, it doesn't initialise it's internal list. So when I try to add items to it in my tests the whole thing throws null reference exceptions. Does anyone have a way of creating EntitySets client side so I can have everything decoupled from my domain context? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Ria Services : Where clause with multiple items
This seems like a simple problem but I am stumped.
I have a screen with a number of filters. In one instance I have checkboxes
of countries (Australia, China, Japan, etc).
I want to filter to only show products that are located in the checked
countries. So products listed in Australia OR in China OR in Japan.
My issue is that the RIA servies query object, only lets you chain up ANDs
var query = ProductDomainContext.ProductSelectQuery();
if(AustraliaIsSelected)
query = query.Where(p = p.Country == Australia);
if(ChinaIsSelected)
query = query.Where(p = p.Country == China);
Doing it this way will end up with a query where the country is Australia
AND China.
I was hoping I could go
var checkedCountries = new []{Australia, China};
query = query.Where(p = checkedCountries.Contains(p.Country)
But RIA complains that it does not support the contains operation.
Any ideas?
-David Burela
P.S.
I can't do it on one line like this
query.Where(p = p.Country==Australia || p.Country == China);
Because at runtime I don't know how many are there. The above is just a
simplified example
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Re: Ria Services : Where clause with multiple items
This sounded like the perfect solution.
But unfortunately RIA crashes
*Nested query expressions are not supported*
-David Burela
On 6 September 2010 16:41, Peter Gfader pe...@gfader.com wrote:
Hi David
Check out the PredicateBuilder from J. Albahiri (Nesting Predicates)
Source here
http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.aspx
http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.aspx.peter.gfader.
http://blog.gfader.com/
http://twitter.com/peitor
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.comwrote:
This seems like a simple problem but I am stumped.
I have a screen with a number of filters. In one instance I have
checkboxes of countries (Australia, China, Japan, etc).
I want to filter to only show products that are located in the checked
countries. So products listed in Australia OR in China OR in Japan.
My issue is that the RIA servies query object, only lets you chain up ANDs
var query = ProductDomainContext.ProductSelectQuery();
if(AustraliaIsSelected)
query = query.Where(p = p.Country == Australia);
if(ChinaIsSelected)
query = query.Where(p = p.Country == China);
Doing it this way will end up with a query where the country is Australia
AND China.
I was hoping I could go
var checkedCountries = new []{Australia, China};
query = query.Where(p = checkedCountries.Contains(p.Country)
But RIA complains that it does not support the contains operation.
Any ideas?
-David Burela
P.S.
I can't do it on one line like this
query.Where(p = p.Country==Australia || p.Country == China);
Because at runtime I don't know how many are there. The above is just a
simplified example
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Re: Next Vic.NET/SDDN Meeting: Monday 2nd August, 2010
Your talk was 6.5GB in 1080p last night I cleaned up the audio (removed background noise / fans), and set it rendering. It has been going for 12 hours so far and has another 3+ hours to go. Then I'll need to split it into 2 halves because vimeo only supports files up to 2gb. Should be up by tomorrow night -David Burela On 17 August 2010 15:54, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: Uploading it raw is easy, but the time consuming bit comes in ... Trying to make Miguel look good, editing the awkward silences and mistakes Thanks for recording it :) Please let me know once it's there to add a link from the SDDN site. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:43 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.comwrote: Uploading it raw is easy, but the time consuming bit comes in when I clean up all of the audio and have to render the entire video again. I managed to clear out a lot of the background noise, makes it easy to listen to than the constant hum of fluorescent lights. I've got the SDDN video, a 5 Cloudcamp lightning talks + unpanel, my talk on Window Phone 7 UI guidelines, and tomorrow's Alt.Net lightning talks to clean up and upload after teched. -David Burela On 17 August 2010 14:21, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Oh, yes please! No hurry on when you upload it. Alternatively I can grab it from you at Teched via thumbdrive (assuming I find you among all those people :) I'll be at the UserGroup stand spreading the Silverlight word (Thursday afternoon, but probably other times too) cheers, Stephen On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Also, for those that missed the Melbourne SDDN, I recorded it. I just won't be able to upload the video for another 1-2 weeks (TechEd preparation, etc.) -David Burela On 11 August 2010 11:19, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback and I had in mind something similar. Not sure about Graffiti (what we're using for sddn.org.au), but I'm sure it will have something similar to categories in Wordpress and we could have RSS feeds for each category and provide a link to those on the home page. Thanks Miguel On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Asheesh Soni asheeshs...@gmail.com wrote: The best option would be a reliable and unified RSS feed with filtering so for example, I could subscribe to all Silverligth events in Melbourne at http://OneUnifiedRSSFeedForEvents.com/AU/Melbourne/Silverlight/feed.rss :) On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: I'm sorry about this. Right now we have different places where we're publishing the events (Facebook group, Twitter, OzSilverlight, sddn.org.au and for Sydney sydney.sddn.org.au). I think we should list everything on sddn.org.au, but I'm sure there're others who would only check the OzSilverlight or only the Facebook group. Considering that, in the meantime we should continue using different mediums to try to reach as most people, but have all those places link to the website... I'm open for opinions. For future events we'll make sure we announce it better and with more time. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Asheesh Soni asheeshs...@gmail.com wrote: Could some one please let me know the url to subscribe for the User group meeting notifications? http://sddn.org.au/meetings/ did not mention it. http://twitter.com/vdnug appears to have died on April 28th I could not find it on Victoria.NET Dev SIG Events either? Was waiting for the meeting for a while, did not check ozsilverlight for a couple of days and now realised that I missed another one :( B.T.W., I emailed my details to i...@victoriadotnet.com.au a while ago but I'dont think I am still a member or get any notifications about vic.net meetings. Any ideas? Thanks On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Miguel Madero m...@miguelmadero.com wrote: Just forwarding this e-mail in case you missed it from the Vic.Net list. From: Victoria .NET on behalf of SDDN [mailto:i...@sddn.org.au] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:57 PM To: Mahesh S. Krishnan Subject: Next Vic.NET/SDDN Meeting: Monday 2nd August, 2010 Next Meeting - Monday August 2nd, 2010 Productivity Tools and Techniques for Silverlight - Miguel Madero During this presentation Miguel will share with us some of the tools and techniques used during the day to day Silverlight Development. Some of these tools will help us design, debug and keep our code neat and simple. Some of the topics covered are: Http Sniffing Visual Design Debugging Silverlight Assemblies Removing the need for INotifyPropertyChanged Advanced Silverlight Debugging Avoiding Code Generation of Web Services When: Monday
Free beta certification exams for Silverlight 4
I thought the list would be interested in this Microsoft just announced the availability of beta exams for Silverlight 4 Windows Azure. They will be available until November 17th. It is a free way to experience what Microsoft certifications are like, and it will help prepare you if you do want to take the exams later http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/free-silverlight-azure-beta-exams/ -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Melbourne SDDN - Thursday 27th April
Hi all. A reminder that tomorrow night is Melbourne SDDN (Silverlight Designer Developer Network). There are 2 talks (upcoming WinPhone7 updates), free pizza, and a chance to talk to other fellow xamlites. details here: http://sddn.org.au/meetings/melbourne/melbourne-april-meeting/ -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Tip: Silverlight page authorisation
I found a way to easily secure any Silverlight application (that is using the Navigation framework), and thought I would share it with the list. To secure your application you only need to put around 15 lines of xaml into MainPage.xaml The syntax is similar to the page authorisation config in an ASP.Net application authLoader:NavigationAuthRule Uri=/Views/CustomerPage.xaml authLoader:Deny Users=? / authLoader:Allow Users=* / /authLoader:NavigationAuthRule http://www.davidpoll.com/2010/01/01/opening-up-silverlight-4-navigation-authenticationauthorization-in-an-inavigationcontentloader/ There are two controls: *AuthContentLoade*r will check that the user is allowed to access the page. If they aren't then an UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown. To catch this the AuthContentLoader control is wrapped in a *ErrorPageLoader * control. This is configured to catch the Unauthorized exception and can redirect to a login screen Hope it helps someone -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Melbourne May SDDN meeting
Just a quick reminder to all that the Melbourne SDDN meeting is on this Thursday http://sddn.org.au/meetings/melbourne/melbourne-may-meeting/ We have two sessions this month. A design session presented by *Silverlight MVP* Alex Knight, and a session on creating pixel shaders! Date: Thursday May 26th Time: Pizza 5:30, sessions start at 6pm Address: Microsoft Theater Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Southbank Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia Register here: http://sddn-may.eventbrite.com/ *UX Crash course: Design, workflow and something else* Alex Knight gives a crash course in creating experiences that will leave users wanting more. We will take a quick tour through the processes used to take your project from a simple idea, to a masterpiece and throw in a few other tips and tricks along the way. Alex Knight works as a Designer at Xamling, and as a Silverlight MVP, he focuses on creating rich and enjoyable experiences for Desktop, web and Mobile. *Create a Perfect Alpha Channel for video* Want to understand Pixel Shaders a little better? Clinton will show you how to think when designing pixel shaders, how they behave and their limitations. He'll work through an example on creating the Perfect Alpha Channel for video embedded in Silverlight using a common practice used in After Effects and 3D/Stereosopic video. ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Melbourne May SDDN meeting
Update: The meeting has been postponed until next month. Due to an issue with the booking -David Burela On 24 May 2011 15:09, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick reminder to all that the Melbourne SDDN meeting is on this Thursday http://sddn.org.au/meetings/melbourne/melbourne-may-meeting/ We have two sessions this month. A design session presented by *Silverlight MVP* Alex Knight, and a session on creating pixel shaders! Date: Thursday May 26th Time: Pizza 5:30, sessions start at 6pm Address: Microsoft Theater Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place Southbank Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia Register here: http://sddn-may.eventbrite.com/ *UX Crash course: Design, workflow and something else* Alex Knight gives a crash course in creating experiences that will leave users wanting more. We will take a quick tour through the processes used to take your project from a simple idea, to a masterpiece and throw in a few other tips and tricks along the way. Alex Knight works as a Designer at Xamling, and as a Silverlight MVP, he focuses on creating rich and enjoyable experiences for Desktop, web and Mobile. *Create a Perfect Alpha Channel for video* Want to understand Pixel Shaders a little better? Clinton will show you how to think when designing pixel shaders, how they behave and their limitations. He'll work through an example on creating the Perfect Alpha Channel for video embedded in Silverlight using a common practice used in After Effects and 3D/Stereosopic video. ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Silverlight tip: server side RIA services custom validation
Thought I'd post this tip on custom server side validation in case anyone finds it useful. In a current Silverlight application we had the scenario where we needed to validate a data form. When the user entered some data, we needed to run some custom validation code against the database to ensure that it was valid. Unfortunately standard custom validators that you put into a .shared.cs file will not work. As any database logic that you wrote, while working on the domain service side, would not be able to compile on the Silverlight side. After a LOT of research, my team came across this blog post by Nikhil Kothari (@nikhilk) that describes how you can write custom validation code that is ONLY executed server side. This allows you to write code that access databases, etc. that cannot be executed client side. Nikhil also then goes into more details on how you can get client side UI notifications, by adding Asynchronous Validation to the UI. Here is the link to Nikhil’s blog post http://www.nikhilk.net/RIA-Services-Validation.aspx -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
SDDN Melbourne - June 30
This month Silverlight MVP Alex Knight is speaking on UX workflow *UX Crash course: Design, workflow and something else* Alex Knight gives a crash course in creating experiences that will leave users wanting more. We will take a quick tour through the processes used to take your project from a simple idea, to a masterpiece and throw in a few other tips and tricks along the way. *Alex Knight* works as a Designer at Xamling, and as a Silverlight MVP, he focuses on creating rich and enjoyable experiences for Desktop, web and Mobile. *Create a Perfect Alpha Channel for video* Want to understand Pixel Shaders a little better? Clinton will show you how to think when designing pixel shaders, how they behave and their limitations. He'll work through an example on creating the Perfect Alpha Channel for video embedded in Silverlight using a common practice used in After Effects and 3D/Stereosopic video. *Clinton *has a keen interest in Video with several short film awards under his belt also a sound engineer who produced remixes for Kylie Minogue, Bardot and other acts in the early 2000's. He began computer programming on a ZX81 in 1983 and has continued this passion through the years with a main focus on media and 3D vision(stereoscopy). He is also creator of Stereosopic calculation software Stereoscopic Master, created in WinForms, now Silverlight. Details: http://sddn-may-2011.eventbrite.com/ -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Build
Earlier this year I sent out a newsletter, saying that I'd made the decision to change the Melbourne SDDN group to be a XAML usergroup, to cover Silverlight + Windows phone (+ WPF). For me there was enough crossover to stop it being an exclusively Silverlight usergroup. My plans for the rest of the year were to have a lot more generic design sessions, such as more examples of a design workflow, the creative process, etc. I figured there should be more DESIGN focus since it is in the usergroup's name (SDDN). Now with build, I'll definitely having WinRT XAML sessions (in fact, that's what this month's Melbourne talk is on). For me, the SDDN has evolved into being a usergroup focused on cutting edge Microsoft UI frameworks, and the design philosophies behind UI/UX. I guess the only issue is the name. I had kept the SDDN name only for the brand recognition. *My suggestion?* We rebrand SDDN to XDDN. Which could mean XAML Design Developer Network or with the X meaning anything if you want to include HTML5 (like the XMUG run by thoughtworks). -David Burela On 21 September 2011 19:12, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, So most people have probably absorbed the stuff shown at BUILD and so I thought I'd kick off a new thread and see what people think. (I'm yet to spend any time watching videos but have read a few blog posts about it) A couple of things spring to mind. Silverlight will soon be (if not already) legacy code. I liked the quote I saw somewhere The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Silverlight Being a developer/designer/devigner, I think its great that XAML will be available for C++, HTML5 and .Net. I'm wondering if it's time to rebadge/rename/reinvent the SDDN user group. I'm thinking XUG would be a good name. (Or perhaps XUGXUG, said in the voice of a peon from warcraft 3 - pronounced Zug-zug). thoughts? Go. ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
SDDN Melbourne - September. Windows 8
Registrations for this month's SDDN are now open http://sddn-sep-2011.eventbrite.com/ It is focused on Windows 8, WinRT, future of XAML, etc. Hope to see a lot of you there. -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Ria services, Data annotations
I've got a weird problem. There are tables in a database with these additional columns CreatedById, ModifiedById. (They are nvarchar, not null) There is then an entity framework model for this (again, strings, not null). RIA services is used to share the entities with the client. The problem is in Silverlight side. If I create a new Product class, display it in a Dataform to allow the user to edit price, etc. I can't submit product to the domain service because validation fails CreatedById can not be null. It makes no sense to set those values on the client side as they could spoof those files. I have logic on the domain service side that looks at the current authenticated user and automatically sets those fields. But I can't submit them because validation keeps failing on those 2 fields. Is there a [NotRequired] property I could put on the domain service metadata file? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
XDDN Melbourne - March - Windows 8
Hi all. If you are in Melbourne, XDDN is doing a session on Windows 8 next week (Wed 21st March) http://xddn-melbourne-march2012.eventbrite.com/ -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Windows 8 Developer camps
Microsoft are organising a number of Windows 8 Developer camps around Australia in capital cities. The full list of dates can be found here http://www.lalaninja.com.au/2012/03/19/windows-8-developer-camps-australia/ If you're interested in Windows 8 development, it will be a day full of presentations, and a chance to sit in a room and hack away with other passionate developers. Register if you're interested. The Melbourne one is this weekend -David Burela Senior Consultant ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Regenerating Ria services metadata
This has been bugging me for years with Ria services. You generate the domain service and the associated metadata when you first create the domain service. Then you update the Entity Framework model I keep searching online for ways to regenerate the metadata file, but all I find is post after post of people requesting the same feature. Has anyone put out a visual studio extension that lets us just right click *regenerate* the metadata yet? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Issue with RIA services and 302 redirects
Long story short, I am using ADFS + WIF in my silverlight app. But after an hour the token expires, the silverlight framework automatically requests a new token from the ADFS server. So far so good, BUT the responses are now 302 redirects to the new URL. From what I can research, it looks like Silverlight RIA services calls have NO idea how to handle 302 responses, and so the domain service call just fails. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the client side generat domainService context classes to handle 302 redirects correctly? -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Creating Office documents
I know that you can create Word Excel documents with 3rd party components, without having office installed on the client e.g. http://samples.infragistics.com/sllob/infragistics-word http://samples.infragistics.com/sllob/infragistics-excel If you want a free component to do it, there might be a way to do it with the open office library and do it server side? But then you still need to find a way to send it to the client, as Greg mentioned -David Burela On 19 May 2012 13:36, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Les, one of my colleagues must be one of the few living people on earth who has managed to decrypt the open office SDK and has written library code that creates documents directly. It's all written in C++ so unfortunately it can't be used on the SL client side. There is nowhere to save the generated file anyway except for isolated storage (buried deep in the file system somewhere). OR... can DL apps write to My Documents? I forget. Perhaps the idea of creating the documents on the server and placing them in a public web folder has merit. Then I must wonder if it's possible to have a hyperlink in an SL app that can open a URL just like an a tag does, I'll bet that's forbidden as well but I'll run a search on it. Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Is it time to open source Silverlight?
http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-open-source-silverlight/ While I was at the MVP summit I started asking around about if it was time to open source Silverlight. My thoughts were if the technology is now considered done by Microsoft, then there are few reasons why it couldn't be released to the community to see what they can do with it. It was a solid technology (which isn't suitable in the modern world of the public web), but still has a nice niche on desktop. It could be interesting to see how the community extends it, and perhaps even put onto other platforms (like moonlight did). A basic game engine could be an interesting direction, or using it to embed within desktop applications. The point is, rather than let it rot internally at Microsoft, why not let the community go wild with it before it gets any more stale. http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-open-source-silverlight/ -David Burela ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
